Search Results: Titles starting with J from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. VG in Fair DJ. (1958). "If God is God He is not good, If God is good He is not God, Take the even, take the odd..." The justification of the . injustice is not, in this play, our blind acceptance of god's inexplicable will, nor our blinder acceptance of the existence oft the world because the world exists. The justification is our love, in spite of everything, for God; our love of life in spite of life. Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. And love is a free gift or it is nothing. Damp stain to top of DJ & book, DJ has some splits at corner. .

NY: Doubleday. VG lg sz PB. (1998). 1st ed 1st ptg. Take off on catalogs. Ft cover show man on toilet reading a J. Crew catalog. People playing frisbee & jumping over tombstones . at a funeral, picture of Ted Kazinsky in a prison unitard, guy shoveling snow in his jockeys, a purse that coldcocks on command. One copy has nicks on backstrap. .

Littleton, NH: Bondcliff Books. VG lg sz PB. 1998. Long regarded as one of the greatest of the turn-of-the-century White Mountain lumber barons, James Everell Henry carved his way . in the history books by commanding a small army of lumberjacks who cut clean the vast untouched forests of the Zealand and East Branch valleys. A fascinating look back at one of New Hampshire's most colorful and determined lumbermen of all time. Exhaustively researched over 30 years, Gove chronicles the history of Henry's two highly successful logging railroads, plus the men who worked the woods, and the locomotives that steamed their way through the vast virgin forests of the White Mountains a century ago, from numerous firsthand accounts and anecdotes from many of the woods workers themselves. .

NY: St. Martin's Griffin. G PB ex-library. (2000). 3rd ptg. Heartwarming story behind Rowling's rise to fame and the answer to Harry Potter's fans' most burning questions. . One of her regular stops was the Nicolson Cafe where she would write away at a corner table. She was quite an odd sight. She would just push the pram with one hand and write away. She said she wasn't really aware it was a children's book. I really wrote it for me. It was what I found funny and what I liked. Her book sold at an auction for an unheard of price and she was off and running. Library markings. .

London: Sidgwick and Jackson. VG in G DJ. 1961. Copyright date cover with colored tape, DJ & fore-edges foxed, edge wear. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. VG PB. (2002). 1st PB ptg. Explores The Lord of the Rings as a linguistic and cultural map and a response to the meaning of myth. .

NY: Macmillan. VG. (1950). Reprint. Dark green binding, gilt lettering on spine, owner notations back endpaper. .

VG in VG DJ. Is freedom dead in America? Writing from the vantage point of a career in journalism that spanned more than a century, Gitt . writes of such fundamental democratic verities as liberty, peace, justice, equality, decency in government and business, and respect for the needs of the common man in the face of industrial "progress". .

NY: Hogarth. Fair hardback. (2014). 1st ed 1st ptg. Man Booker Prize Book. Middle of book has a center dark edge. .

NY: Holt. VG in VG DJ. (1993). 1st ed ss.

London: Pan. VG PB. (1977). The monster so terrifying people caught the plague to avoid it. Scrape to back bottom outer corner. .

NY: Coward McCann Geoghegan. VG in VG DJ. (1976). 1st Am ed. Nick on back of DJ, top edge back flap browned, sl edge wear. .

Brookly, NY: Palmolive-Peet Co. VG PB. (1927). Coloring book advertising Palmolive soap. .

author self published. VG Hardback, DJ poor. (1973). In Ginsberg foreword Author Charters loved Kerouac's art, did his first bibliography with him while alige, cherished his . scripture and literary soul-might, researched with difnity the interior of his novels and family, spoke many years with his friends and applied her vast tactful scholarship as a master musician archivist of jazz to the underwstanding of the musical sound as American lonely Prose Trumpeter of drunken Buddha Sacret Heart. Author Charters first met Kerouac in the spring of 1956 at a poetry reading in Berkeley. Peter Orlovsky took me there to hear his friend AllenGinsberg recite "Howl!" I remember Jack as a drkly intense, handsome young man in rumpled clothes who got to the theater early and stood up near the stage, holding high his own bottle of wine, fondly advising Kenneth Rexroth how to run the show. When crowds of people he gathered, he passed a hat for contributions and rushed out to buy gallons of wine so… Read More

San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books. VG Hardback, DJ poor. (1973). 1st prntg. In Ginsberg foreword Author Charters loved Kerouac's art, did his first bibliography with him while alive, cherished his . scripture and literary soul-might, researched with difnity the interior of his novels and family, spoke many years with his friends and applied her vast tactful scholarship as a master musician archivist of jazz to the underwstanding of the musical sound as American lonely Prose Trumpeter of drunken Buddha Sacret Heart. Author Charters first met Kerouac in the spring of 1956 at a poetry reading in Berkeley. Peter Orlovsky took me there to hear his friend AllenGinsberg recite "Howl!" I remember Jack as a drkly intense, handsome young man in rumpled clothes who got to the theater early and stood up near the stage, holding high his own bottle of wine, fondly advising Kenneth Rexroth how to run the show. When crowds of people he gathered, he passed a hat for contributions and rushed out to… Read More

Toronto: Coach House Press. G PB edge wear. (1976). 2nd priinting. Kerouac often wrote on occasion in French or joual, Chapter XXIX an imaginary dialogue between Kerouac and Memere in French. . Kerouac speaks of Cardinals as silk stocking full of mud of American congresssmen who "shine and stink like rottten mackerel in the moonlight" When you realize Jack is very close to Burroughs and Ginsberg and like them he will become "an agent provocateur of great changes for anauthentic human revolution." .

NY: Putnam. VG in VG DJ. (1998).

NY: Fawcett Publications. VG. (1969). Special exercise, recipes. Four page insert by Margot Dougherty where he urges a healthy way of life. La Lanne says, . "I can't die", he likes to say. "It would ruin my image." Some edge wear. .

NY: Cupples & Leon. VG. (1936). Owner's stamp on fep. Binding rubbed. .

NY: Cupples & Leon. G. (1936). Red binding, black lettering. Edge wear, two nicks to top ft edge, spine faded, owner name on fore-edge. .